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12 HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Buck [buk], fib, the buck of a cart or waggon, the body of it — Grose ; Warner ; F. M. Buck [buk], ah, the stag-beetle ; also called pink-buck, Thechildren, when catching it, sing this snatch : — ' High hick^ low buck, Bwk^ come down.' The female is known as the doe. — ^Wise, New Forest, Bnoky-cheese [buki-cheez], sb. a sweet, rank cheese. Perhaps from a rank, goatish taste, houc in French signifying a he-goat. — Grose ; Warner ; F. M. ; as hock does in Gherman. Bud [bud], sh, a young deer. Applied in Sussex to a ecdf of the first year, because then the horns begin to appear or hud, — ^Wise (note on Cooper). Budgy [budji], adj, round, like a cask. Ex. ' a little budgy, quattj tSig/ ^ Bugle [beu'gl] sb, a bull. ' A word forgotten even by the peasantry, and only to be seen, as at Lymington and elsewhere, on a few inn- signs, with a picture sometimes of a oow, by way of explanation.' — Wise, New Forest, p. 188. Bulky [bul'ki], adj, generous. — Winch. Sch. Gl, Good-natured, liberal; from amplitudo, sometimes used by Latin writers in this sense. — Adams' Wykehamica^ p. 418. Bull'fl-head [buolz-hed]. sb. the fish also called the miller's thumb ; Cottue gobio, Linn. — ^White's Nat, Hist, of Selhome, Letter xL Bull-thruflh [buol-thrush], zb, the missel-thrush. — ^Wise, New Forest^ p. 189. Bumble [bumb-l], v, (1) To buzz, to hum ; as, 'to bumble like a bee in a tar-tub.' (2) To stumble, to halt— Wise, New Forest, p. 189. Bummell, or Bumble-kite [bum-l, bumbl-keit], sh, a bramble or blackberry. Bubus friUicosus, — Grose. See Bnunmell. Bunch [bunch], eb, (1) A blow. S2) A swolunff (as the effect of a blow). 3) A blotch, Dum, scald, pimple. — Wise, New Forest See Bladder. Bunch, V. to punch, to strike. — Wise, New Forest, Bundle off [bundi-auf], v. to set off in a hurry. — Cooper. Bundles [bund-lz], sh, pi, a game at cards, which I have often played, but forget now the way. — F. M. Bunk [bunk], v. iii imper, mood, be off I -— F. M. Bunny [bun'il, sh, a small ravine opening to the sea ; as in Chewton Bunny, Beckton Bunny, Also any small drain, culvert, Ac 'The little cottage was partly sheltered by an elbow of the cliff ; otherwise it would have been flymg up the bunny long ago.'— Cradock NoweU^